Each new report and rumor about X-Men: Days of Future Past further indicates that director Bryan Singer is pulling out all the stops. Returning to the franchise that he first shepherded into being in 2000, Singer has managed to persuade a number of the series’ iconic stars to reprise their previous roles.

Page’s costuming is certainly in keeping with what we’ve seen of the characters from the film’s grim future. Each has had an armored, militarized feel that surely reflects the X-Men’s resistance against the mutant-hunting Sentinels that have taken over the world.

From a promotional standpoint, it makes sense to reintroduce Page along with the more recognizable characters from the early X-Men franchise. The actress’s star has only risen higher since her turn as Shadowcat in X-Men: The Last Stand.

More importantly, Kitty Pryde was the central character and main motivating force of the original comic book version of Days of Future Past. In that landmark storyline, Pryde was one of the few mutant survivors of the Sentinels’ onslaught. She agreed to have her mind sent back in time to prevent the assassination that sparked the anti-mutant crackdown that led to humanity’s downfall.

Given that the primary setting of X-Men: Days of Future Past will be in the 1970s, it is unlikely that Kitty Pryde will be the time traveler sent to undo the rise of the Sentinels during the movie. That said, the character’s prominent presence on-set shows that Singer is devoted to keeping the characters and aesthetic of the comics storyline intact.

Now that we’ve had a glimpse of Kitty Pryde, we just have to see what Rogue (Anna Paquin) and Iceman (Shawn Ashmore) look like in their robot-haunted future. It will be interesting to see just how well Singer wrangles all of these disparate characters together – not to mention how he connects them to the past days of James McAvoy’s young Professor X.

UPDATE: Commenters with shrewder eyes than mine have pointed out that the bearded gentleman on the left edge of the posted image is almost certainly Shawn Ashmore. Even though it’s not a clear view of the character, it does look as if Singer has slipped our first glimpse of Bobby Drake into his Kitty Pryde reveal. As with the rest of the mutant resistance, Iceman is sporting some decidedly Road Warrior-esque costuming.

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X-Men: Days of Future Past will phase into theaters on July 18th, 2014.

I thought it was pretty good, but not NEARLY as good as the first two X-men movies. I think the biggest problem was the different director. I thought the script was pretty descent, and the film could have been on par with the first two if Bryan Singer directed it.

i think everyone needs to remember first and foremost this is a first class movie. every thing will be centered around them. this is not the xmen movie sequel, its a first﻿ class sequel.

characters like wolverine, storm and ice man would not be the central characters and will be more like supporting. i think the character that will be in it most is from the previous movies is kitty, it only makes sense she she was the central character in the comic.

Actually, that’s not true. Bryan has stated that this movie is not strictly a First Class sequel. Bryan states it is a movie to tie all the X-men movies together. He says it’s kind of it’s own thing. So it’s very possible that characters such as Storm, Wolverine, Shadowcat, and Iceman will have good size roles. In fact I think that will be the case.

They were vague about what First Class was so this really keeps with their new philosophy of not having a clear direction. It will be interesting to see how they are going to tie X-3 which seemed like it was meant to kill off the series; Wolverine:Origins which was a prequel that had some links to the first films, but threw a whole bunch of other plot points in for no reason, and First Class which was an odd mix of nods to the first two movies and other ideas that were totally out of context and continuity.

What ever happened to the success and the freshness of XMFC? What has this movie become? Bryan Singer is getting his rocks off making this film. It seems so bland and misguided, a hopeless retread of stars that were miscast in the first place. SINGER SUCKS.

He’s selling his movie through the more established actors like Hugh, Halle also showing the older supporting actors. Soon enough he’ll bring the big guns Fass, McKellen, Stewart, McAvoy and most importantly Lawrence.

This re-tread i think is just his shock promotion, cause any comic book fan knows that they’ll all die in the opening minutes

Whereas I was once interested in this movie, after hearing that Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart were going to be back in it, I have now lost interest in it, after learning that pretty much everybody and their cousin are going to be in it. I have no doubt, at this point, with all the actors/characters named, it is going to be a complete shambles, with very minimal screen time given to most characters!

That’s the spirit! I was going to say its way too early to judge this films final quality based on a few twitter pics and cast announcements, but your right. There is no chance that the original trilogy cast members may just be playing a glorified cameo future scene setting up the distopian future or anything, taking up maybe 20 minutes of screen time. There is no chance in the 70s portion of the movie, that the characters will have more inspired and colorful costumes. There is also no chance that the man who gave us X1 and X2, could deliver another satisfying and entertaining film, or that Vaughnn who gave us XMFC, involvement in this film could be a good thing. No chance at all. Stupid twitter pics. They ruined a perfectly good movie.

I personally did not think much of First Class, so that must put me on the “outs” in your book. Anyway, I enjoy character centered movies, not tons of action with tons of characters jockeying for screen time. But hey, you’re right…there is a chance the costumes might be “more inspired and colorful”, if that matters…

Does anyone else not like that Bryan Singer keeps tweeting all of these images from the movie? I understand I have no obligation to look at them – I think this will be the last one I check out starting today – but maybe save some stuff for the movie? Focus on directing and get off of your smart phone. I know that is a little harsh.

Jeezow I’m such a nerd fanboy that I just can’t let this go. Must rant. Why is it that we have to endure another dull, colorless X-men movie? First Class was awesome. Go yellow outfits! And look at other successful super hero properties: Spider-Man looks like spidey. Iron Man looks like Iron Man. Batman looks like Batman. Superman looks like Superman. Captain America looks like Captain America. Thor looks like Thor. Hulk looks like Hulk. Then, we go X-men, and it’s like: Must put them in leather. Black leather. Brown leather. Leather hoodies. Leather trench coats. Leather capes. (Maybe leather undies?) I don’t get it. Does X-men intrinsically suck? Is that why all the leather? B/C I tend to think the outfits were awesome in the books. Come to think of it, maybe that’s why all the actors look so bored in these shots. Maybe the subtext is: “Came for the super hero movie but all I got was this leather hoodie.”

They have went with the this look for most of the series, so I really don’t know why anyone thinks it will change much now. There is also the fact that for this storyline the X-Men were supposed to be in hiding, so running around in bright costumes does not seem like a smart move.

I used to like X2, but going back and watching all of the X-Men movies in the past year I’ve decided that these movies are almost all subpar… unfortunately, I expect more of the same with the next two installments.

Big Ellen Page fan here, so this is a positive note in my book. I just hope that this film still has the feel of “First Class” and that McAvoy/Fassbender get more screen time than Stewart/McKellen. The older guys are great actors, but I liked how fresh the last one was.